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90-Year-Old Woman Dies After Falling on Escalator in U.K.
A 90-year-old woman died from complications after falling on an escalator inside a busy shopping center in Swansea, Wales, U.K., the Express reported on August 6. The woman suffered lacerations...
Maxton Manufacturing Co. Launches New Website
Maxton Manufacturing Co. launched its updated website with a fluid single cloud-based platform across the entire website on August 5. Maxton’s new website boasts quick access to all the desired information and...
Redding To Bill Residents for Non-Life-Threatening Lift Assists
City of Redding, California, residents will receive a new bill if they’ve called 911 for lift assistance from the Redding Fire Department. The Redding City Council approved a First Responder...
Shorts Hosts Third Annual Langer & Laumann Roadshow Tour
U.K.-based Shorts took to the road for the third consecutive year with its Langer & Laumann Roadshow Tour. This event continues to provide lift professionals with an opportunity to deepen...
50th POP/JOE Golf Outing Set For September 8
The 50th POP Frohlinger/JOE Marchese Memorial Invitational Outing, a popular golf event to benefit the Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation (EESF), is planned rain or shine at the Brookville Country Club...
Nippon Otis Modernizes Elevator at Major Japan Dam
Nippon Otis overcame challenging conditions to successfully modernize the elevator at Kurobe River Fourth Power Plant of Kurobe Dam, one of Japan's largest dams, Otis announced in July. The plant...
Total Access Elevator Acquires LA Elevator
Total Access Elevator, a Sante Fe Springs, California-based division of Los Angeles (LA)-based private-equity firm Century Park, announced in August the acquisition of LA Elevator, an independent provider of elevator...
TKE and Alat Successfully Close KSA Partnership and JV
TK Elevator (TKE), headquartered in Dusseldorf, Germany, and Alat, a Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), successfully closed a strategic partnership investment and EUR160-million (US$184.6-million) joint venture (JV), TKE announced on...
Modernized Elevators Unveiled at Busy NYC Subway Station
Forte Construction Corp., based on Long Island, NY, with a NYC office, on August 4 announced successful completion of a two-elevator modernization at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA) 66th Street-Lincoln...
76 Otis Elevators for Sobha’s Six-Tower Dubai Project
Otis announced on August 4 it will install 76 elevators for Sobha Realty at its Riverside Crescent development in Sobha Hartland II in Dubai. In the development's first phase, Riverside...
